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News Clipping - Christopher Green Love
Full text linkNews clipping describing the Civil War military appointments of several soldiers from Cleveland County, including: Christopher Green Love, Edward Dixon, William Weir, William Corbett, Leroy McAffee, Daniel J. Hardin, Judson Magness, William W. Wright, Isaac O. Bridges, G. G. Holland, and Milton A. Lowe.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/fay-webb-gardner-christopher-green-love/1001/thumbnail.jp
The whirl of the red, green, and blue: Christopher Anstey and the particoloured poem
No full textA hundred years before Robert Browning’s “red, green, and blue that whirl into a white” made The Ring and the Book the most consciously kaleidoscopic of Victorian poems, the centre of the whirling world was a hundred miles away from Browning’s Paddington, in the city of Bath. The principles of polyphony and chromatic co-ordination were writ large not only in the massive segmented circle of John Wood’s Circus but also, at the very time the Circus was approaching completion, in Christopher Anstey’s poem The New Bath Guide (1766). Anstey’s poem is shaped by sharply marked differences between the voices, idioms and metres that it interlaces. The component parts are equally valuable and weighty, and so dovetailed one into another that although each is independently apprehensible all can be harmoniously combined. This chapter attends to the dynamics of The New Bath Guide, and considers some of the pointers which it offered to the subsequent development of “polyphonic narrative,” as C. S. Lewis would term it, in poems and novels alike
PASAGLOSSA: Mapping the world's linguistic diversity
No full textEver-increasing globalization requires easy access to information about a diverse array of languages. While large amounts of information exist about the world’s languages, this information is spread across a variety of academic, pedagogical,and other sources. Further,users who are not specialized academic linguists may find existing resources and resource databases difficult to find and use.
This talk introduces PASAGLOSSA, the result of an ongoing collaboration between the US Government and the University of Maryland’s Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL). PASAGLOSSA is an interactive map-based language portal showing where all the known languages of the world are natively spoken. PASAGLOSSA is designed to be a user-friendly tool, providing users with varying levels of background and expertise easy access to language information and resources.
PASAGLOSSA maps the languages of the world according to defined polygons that show known distributions of native speakers. This provides a visualization of the interaction of individual languages and language families. Each polygon is linked to a distinct ISO code that connects the users to disambiguated information on the language. Basic information is available for all 7,000 of the world’s languages; this includes:
• The geographic and demographic information, including an estimate of the number of speakers, known dialects, and alternate names, for each of the world’s 7,000 languages;
• Audio samples of over 3,000 of those languages;
• Related languages, at any level of genetic similarity;
• The national and official languages of each country of the world;
• Access to a wiki interface displaying other language-specific enhancements.
• An interactive language familiarization tool which allows users to test their aural recognition skills in a wide variety of languages.
This talk will offer a demonstration of basic PASAGLOSSA features, highlighting the search capabilities and the technological infrastructure that provides the foundation for this tool. With this foundation in place, the PASAGLOSSA portal stands ready to be populated with a diverse array of world language data, including both scholarly and pedagogical resources
Matt Christopher Papers - Accession 1309
Full text linkThe collection includes letters written by the children’s book author, Matt Christopher, to his son, Marty Christopher. Many of the letters also contain newspaper articles of interest to Matt Christopher, which deal with local sports teams, his writing career, his participation in an exhibition baseball game against the New York Giants in 1938, and other of general interest. Most of the letters are personal in nature, however, a majority of the letters delve into Matt Christopher’s writing career, personal interests, the author’s health, as well as his family life.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2649/thumbnail.jp
Matt Christopher Papers - Accession 1221
Full text linkMatt Christopher (1917-1997) was a prolific author of children’s books having written over 100 books as well as over 300 short stories, articles, poems, and screenplays. Most of his writings dealt with sports themes, but he also wrote fantasy and mystery themed stories as well. The Matt Christopher Papers consist of both published and unpublished manuscripts, articles, and short stories. Also included are personal and business correspondence, biographical information, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1976/thumbnail.jp
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Passportisation, peacekeepers and proportionality: the Russian claim of the protection of nationals abroad in self-defence
No full textDr. Christopher von Rueden – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Christopher von Rueden, an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, discusses a recent article entitled, “Men’s status and reproductive success in 33 non-industrial societies: Effects of subsistence, marriage system, and reproductive strategy,” which he co-authored with Dr. Adrian Jaeggi, an anthropologist at Emory University. Their findings were recently published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
ESP Across Cultures
No full textThis present volume constitutes the third online edition of ESP Across Cultures.
The decision to change from a paper-based to an online edition has undoubtedly
been beneficial in terms of enjoying greater visibility within the international academic
community. One thing that has not changed over the years, however, since
the inception of the journal in 2004, has been the policy of double-blind peer reviewing,
which means that only a selected number of the papers submitted end up as
being published.
There are seven papers in the current issue, each one analysing a particular aspect
of English for Specific Purposes from a cross-cultural perspective.
The first paper, by Hmoud S. Alotaibi, focuses on research article introductions
in Arabic, analysing the extent to which scholars writing in Arabic in the sphere of
education adhere to the CARS (Create A Research Space) model delineated by John
Swales which was elaborated in particular with regard to the academic conventions
widely adopted in the English-speaking world. Instead of restricting the investigation
to the introductory section as past studies in this field did, the author examines
all of the subheadings and he concludes that all introductions include Move 2 in a
subheading entitled the Problem of the Study, a result that contradicts previous
findings where the paucity of Move 2 was common in non-English RAs, and especially
in Arabic ones.
Patrizia Anesa analyses the websites of the main arbitration centres operating in
Asia from a textual perspective to define how they are discursively constructed and
can be used as promotional tools, thereby helping us to evaluate the importance assumed
by internationalization processes or by local cultural elements in promoting a
particular centre as a seat for international arbitration. She concludes that while
some scholars argue that we are witnessing the ‘Asianization’ of arbitration, with
the increasing bargaining power of Asian parties, on the other hand a phenomenon
of ‘Universal Arbitration’ is also emerging, i.e. a form of convergence of how disputes
are resolved so that parties of any nationality can operate in the same way
with ever fewer language barriers.
In their paper, Mahmood Reza Atai and Fatemeh Asadnia examine the communicative
and promotional function of university homepages by looking at the ‘university
overview’, ‘university mission statement’, and ‘university introduction at a
glance’ genres, using a corpus of 210 texts selected from homepages of the top 500
universities ranked by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The findings
demonstrated that the three genres shared communicative purposes, functional
units, certain moves and steps, socio-academic contexts, and discourse community
members that led to the formation of a genre set.
Gaetano Falco explores ways of using comics in an MA course on translation of
economic texts as a means of stimulating the interest of language students with no
economics skills in order to introduce economics-related lexis and improve thematic
competence in general. He observes that empirical research has shown that films
and comics can indeed be useful resources to teach economic translation to students
with no skills in economics. However, the author warns that the use of comics for
educational purposes may have its drawbacks, e.g. when students deal with complex
sign systems which embody complex economic concepts, where often the humorous
element is lost.
In her paper, Irina Khoutyz describes the differences in how scholars present
their findings in research articles (RA) in international journals in English and in
Beyza Björkman
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Jan Chovanec
Anda-Elena Cretiu
Erika Dalan
John Douthwaite
Hanem El-Farahaty
Said Faiq
Silvia Ferreri
Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
Pedro Fuertes-Olivera
Giuliana Garzone
Christoph Hafner
Ruba Khamam
Anna Loiacono
Geraldine Ludbrook
John McRae
Susan Petrilli
Silvia Pireddu
Tarja Salmi-Tolonen
Jeffrey Segrave
Charlotte Taylor
Margherita Ulrych
John Kenneth White
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local journals in Russian. She then looks into the reasons for these differences, seeking
explanations from the sociocultural contexts in which these RAs were written,
as well as providing advice to local authors as to how to make their RAs more competitive
at the international level. The differences include the apparent lack of
structure of Russian RAs with respect to English RAs; the tendency in Russian authors
not to specify the purpose in writing a paper; and the tendency of Russian authors
to present the methodology used in less detail compared with English RAs.
Luisella Leonzini investigates the use of verbal and visual metaphors in economic-
media discourse within the context of the euro crisis by studying the correlation
between linguistic and pictorial metaphors and text-image intersemiotic relations.
The research is based on a cross-analysis of English and Italian editorial
articles published between 2009 and 2012. In both corpora, metaphorical realizations
frame the economic crisis which hit the single currency and the eurozone in
2009 as a partial collapse and hint at a possible return to stability in the form of a
recovery. The aim of this paper is to analyse the collapse/caduta and
recovery/ripresa metaphors across languages in the press.
Ian Robinson reports on using corpus linguistics to aid students in writing a creative
text. He looks at the available literature to help understand what is meant by
‘creativity’. A worksheet was prepared using a corpus linguistic analysis of modern,
English versions of the stories of the Brothers Grimm. This worksheet was constructed
with the use of a specialized corpus, and a stop-list was created which contained
single words as well as word clusters found in the tales. Students were then
asked to select some of these words and phrases to help them write stories which
were then analysed, and a follow-up questionnaire was used to elicit the students’
perceptions concerning creativity. The author concludes that creativity is essential
in EFL and that it is something to be fostered in students
Contribution of Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade to the Adjudication of International Human Rights at the International Court of Justice
Full text linkChristopher Waters, in the Introduction to this book, pays tribute to the considerable contribution that Professor Sandy Ghandhi made to legal scholarship, teaching and advocacy, particularly, though not exclusively, in the area of human rights law. The present author fully agrees with this assessment and has himself drawn upon Ghandhi’s insights in his own writing. He would be remiss, however, not to also express his personal gratitude to Ghandhi for mentoring him when he began his academic career as a lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Reading (2007–12). Intellectually, of course, Ghandhi was first class, but what most remains with the present author after over five years as one of Ghandhi’s mentees is his modesty, as well as his gentle nature and kindness. Perhaps this was because Ghandhi sensed that a commitment to human rights, understood holistically, is not simply about challenging the powerful to “humanise” their rule, though it is surely this, but also extends to caring for specific men and women as one encounters them in one’s daily life, at a personal level. It is a privilege to be able to contribute to this collection of essays in honour of Ghandhi
The logistics service providers in eco-efficiency innovation: an empirical study
Full text linkPurpose: Sustainability and the search for solutions that are both efficient and ecologically sound (eco-efficient) have become topics of great interest. However, companies seeking to develop supply chain solutions that are eco-efficient are often hampered by their ability to control the wider supply chain and they may need to draw upon external support from logistics service providers (LSPs). This paper aims to explore the innovative strategies undertaken by LSPs in the eco-efficiency arena and the logistics and learning capabilities needed to achieve eco-efficiency in supply chains. Design/methodology/approach: The insights derived from a Systematic Literature Review approach to identify the most relevant articles to be included in the analysis represented the starting point for building our empirical investigation, based on case studies with in-depth interviews to investigate the phenomenon under consideration and to explore trends and evolving paradigms. Findings: The Systematic Literature Review enriches the existing literature by drawing upon three bodies of knowledge, i.e. logistics service providers, eco-efficiency and logistics innovation, and putting them into a single framework. The findings from the interviews suggest that although LSPs are well placed to implement innovative initiatives for eco-efficiency there is a range of inhibitors that prevent major change programmes. Research limitations/implications: The research reported in this paper is exploratory and limited in its scope. It is based on in-depth interviews within six companies. However, it does provide a platform from which more detailed research may be conducted. Practical implications: The managerial implications arising from the research offer a wide range of current practices in sustainability, from which strategic and operative directions to compete can be derived. Originality/value: There is little existing literature that addresses the innovative strategies undertaken by LSPs in influencing and moving supply chains towards eco-efficiency and hence the present paper is meant to help fill this gap. Keywords: Logistics Service Providers, Eco-efficiency, Logistics Innovation, Sustainable supply chain
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